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Promise: A Novel

by Minrose Gwin

Published: 2018-02-27

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart—one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager—fight for their families’ survival in this lyrical and powerf...

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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

by Nicole Chung

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Long-listed for PEN Open Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, Real Simple, Buzzfeed, Jezebel, Bustle, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library, and more "This book moved me to my very core. . . . [All You Can Ever Know] should be req...

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The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Published: 2006-05-17

Paperback: 272 pages

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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. Bu...

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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2018-02-20

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating." --USA Today"A vivid and thought-provoking synthesis." --Harper's A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post). Although...

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The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

Published: 2003-08-15

Paperback: 416 pages

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As women, we know how important it is to take charge of our health care-to be informed and proactive. But too often we forget that our mental wellness is an integral part of our overall health. The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women is the definitive resource for women looking for a...

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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2000-05-30

Hardcover: 240 pages

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"The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, Slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under siege. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to...

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Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

by Lauren Slater

Published: 1997-07-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you ...

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Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas

by Lauren Slater

Published: 2006-08-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms the fairy tale. "Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible." --Donna Seaman, Booklist Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born ...

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The Truth: A Novel

by Michael Palin

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 272 pages

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"An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes [and] the price of personal compromise.'"?The Daily Telegraph For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Pal...

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Obsession: The bestselling psychological thriller of 2017

by Amanda Robson

Published: 2017-09-19

Paperback: 464 pages

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The #1 ebook bestseller‘Thrilling, unputdownable, a fabulous rollercoaster of a read – I was obsessed by this book’ B A PARIS, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS’Compulsive reading with characters you will love to hate and an ending that will make your jaw drop.’ JENNY BLA...